A Little Political Analysis

I've been keeping relatively up to date on Barrack Obama's business through his weekly addresses and scattered bits of non-CNN news coverage. It continually annoys me to see people react so negatively to the new President's plans, when those same people (and many others) have been changemongers for the past 8 (or more) years. I'm not American, so I am not inclined to blindly accept all messages from white buildings in Washington as the truth, but I thought a little numbers comparison could prove useful in deterring the aforementioned mockery of this man's hope for the future of a country in need. I would like to put President Obama's broadband upgrade plan into perspective. First, I'll start with the facts.

• The United States spent approximately $623 billion dollars on military initiatives in 2008. (Reference)

• Comcast's 2008 Operating Expenses were approximately $6 billion. (from 2008 3^rd Quarter figures: Reference)

The new President's general attitude toward military spending appears to involve significantly less investment in shooting oil fields in the middle-east, allowing one to be relatively confident in assuming the budget for military spending will be drastically reduced in the very near future. This means there will be a few hundred billion taxpayer dollars floating around the Whitehouse, and you can be sure the new administration will jump at the chance to put their money where their mouths are.



I only hope the government here in Canada watches enough American news to catch this train before it leaves.